Robert Burton

Robert Burton

Born: August 12, 1895
Died: September 29, 1962
in Eastman, Georgia, USA
Robert Burton was an actor.

Movies for Robert Burton...

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Title: Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Character: Dale Anderson
Released: January 16, 1977
Type: Movie
A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
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Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession
Title: Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession
Released: January 28, 1972
Type: Movie
A two-part episode of the original Lassie television series (that aired in 1971) made into a single TV-movie.
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Title: The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Character: Brian Frisbee
Released: September 17, 1969
Type: TV
The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the same name, which was based on the book written by Mark Toby. It tells the story of a widower, Tom Corbett, who is a magazine publisher, and his son, Eddie, who believes his father should marry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in. ABC had acquired the rights to the story; the series debuted on September 17, 1969, and was last broadcast on March 1, 1972. Bixby received an Emmy nomination for the show.
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The Slime People
Title: The Slime People
Character: Prof. Galbraith
Released: March 29, 1963
Type: Movie
After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters, a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
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Billy Rose's Jumbo
Title: Billy Rose's Jumbo
Character: Madison
Released: December 6, 1962
Type: Movie
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
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Mooncussers
Title: Mooncussers
Character: E.P. Hallett
Released: December 2, 1962
Type: Movie
A young boy discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates that work at night and sends out false homing signals to ships at sea. The ships then crash on the shore, where they are looted by the gang.
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Birdman of Alcatraz
Title: Birdman of Alcatraz
Character: Sen. Ham Lewis (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1962
Type: Movie
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
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Who Killed Julie Greer?
Title: Who Killed Julie Greer?
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of actress Julie Greer, he finds lots of suspects - but the killer's identity surprises him.
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The Young Savages
Title: The Young Savages
Character: Judge
Released: May 24, 1961
Type: Movie
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
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Seven Ways from Sundown
Title: Seven Ways from Sundown
Character: Eavens
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan passes up several chances to get away - but in the end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.
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The Gallant Hours
Title: The Gallant Hours
Character: Roy Geiger
Released: June 13, 1960
Type: Movie
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
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Wake Me When It's Over
Title: Wake Me When It's Over
Character: Col. Dowling
Released: June 10, 1960
Type: Movie
The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!
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The Story on Page One
Title: The Story on Page One
Character: District Attorney Nordeau
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
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Title: Johnny Ringo
Character: Pike
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It is loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter and outlaw Johnny Ringo, also known as John Peters Ringo or John B. Ringgold, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Buckskin Franklin Leslie.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Doctor
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Invasion of the Animal People
Title: Invasion of the Animal People
Character: Dr. Frederick Wilson
Released: August 19, 1959
Type: Movie
After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate.
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A Private's Affair
Title: A Private's Affair
Character: Gen. Charles E. Hargrave
Released: August 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Luigi, Jerry, and Mike are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their unit in competition on a national television show. The three guys are up to the challenge, which begins a chain of unusual circumstances that not only have them singing and dancing at the proper times, but also running into a trio of alluring young women.
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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Title: The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Character: First General
Released: August 6, 1959
Type: Movie
In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a delivery boy who invents a machine which turns his girlfriend into a giantess.
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Compulsion
Title: Compulsion
Character: Charles Straus
Released: April 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.
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Mardi Gras
Title: Mardi Gras
Character: Comdr. Tydings
Released: November 18, 1958
Type: Movie
A military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations.
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Title: The Rifleman
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
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Man or Gun
Title: Man or Gun
Character: Burt Burton
Released: May 30, 1958
Type: Movie
Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town of Dusty Flats. After outdrawing wanted outlaw Buckstorm Corley in the saloon, Smith finds himself up against the entire corrupt Corley clan -- who've been running roughshod over the fearful townsfolk for years.
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The Hard Man
Title: The Hard Man
Character: Sheriff Hacker
Released: December 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.
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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Title: I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Character: Dr. Karlton
Released: November 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.
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No Down Payment
Title: No Down Payment
Released: October 30, 1957
Type: Movie
The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard-working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.
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Domino Kid
Title: Domino Kid
Character: Sheriff Travers
Released: October 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death.
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The Hired Gun
Title: The Hired Gun
Character: Nathan Conroy
Released: September 20, 1957
Type: Movie
A rich Texan hires a gunman (Rory Calhoun) to bring an escaped woman (Anne Francis) back to hang.
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The Tall T
Title: The Tall T
Character: Tenvoorde
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: Movie
An independent former ranch foreman and an heiress are kidnapped by a trio of ruthless outlaws.
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The Brass Legend
Title: The Brass Legend
Character: Tom Gipson
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
During a ride with his new pony Sinoya, the young Clay Gibson by chance finds the secret housing of the multiple murderer Tris Hatten. He reports immediately to Sheriff Adams, who strongly recommends him not to tell anybody about it. Unfortunately Clay talks to his father nevertheless. He believes Adams just wanted fame and reward for himself and accuses him in the newspaper. Thereby he endangers his son, who's now targeted by a killer which Tris' girlfriend Winnie hired for revenge. Written by Tom Zoerner
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Three Brave Men
Title: Three Brave Men
Character: W.L. Dietz
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.
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Reprisal!
Title: Reprisal!
Character: Jeb Cantrell
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There is soon trouble between Frank and the Shipleys who are using Frank's land to graze their cattle. When the brother of one of the Indian victims kills a Shipley, Frank is accused and put in jail. The Shipleys then organize a lynch mob and head for the jail.
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The Rack
Title: The Rack
Character: Col. Ira Hansen
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the US after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?
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Jubal
Title: Jubal
Character: Dr. Grant
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
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Ransom!
Title: Ransom!
Character: Sheriff Jake Kessing
Released: January 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A rich man stuns his wife and town with a televised threat to his son's kidnapper.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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The Left Hand of God
Title: The Left Hand of God
Character: Rev. Marvin
Released: September 2, 1955
Type: Movie
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.
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The Road to Denver
Title: The Road to Denver
Character: Pete
Released: June 15, 1955
Type: Movie
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.
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Soldier of Fortune
Title: Soldier of Fortune
Character: Father Xavier (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1955
Type: Movie
An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the Communists. He promises to help find her husband.
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A Man Called Peter
Title: A Man Called Peter
Character: Mr. Peyton
Released: March 31, 1955
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
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Broken Lance
Title: Broken Lance
Character: Mac Andrews
Released: September 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
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The Siege at Red River
Title: The Siege at Red River
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Cavalry Captain Farraday attempts to prevent the delivery of Gatling Guns into the hands of hostile Indians.
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Riot in Cell Block 11
Title: Riot in Cell Block 11
Character: Guard Ambrose
Released: February 18, 1954
Type: Movie
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
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Taza, Son of Cochise
Title: Taza, Son of Cochise
Character: General Crook
Released: February 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to light the firecracker's fuse...
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
Title: All the Brothers Were Valiant
Character: Asa Whorten
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
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The Big Heat
Title: The Big Heat
Character: Det. Gus Burke
Released: October 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1997.
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Inferno
Title: Inferno
Character: Sheriff
Released: August 12, 1953
Type: Movie
When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two of them are really lovers who are leaving Carson to die in the heat. Slowly, Carson realizes he is on his own and vows revenge on the traitorous couple. Having had a privileged life, Carson must now use his wits to stay alive.
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Latin Lovers
Title: Latin Lovers
Character: Mr. Cumberly
Released: August 12, 1953
Type: Movie
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
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A Slight Case of Larceny
Title: A Slight Case of Larceny
Character: Police captain
Released: June 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Character: David Sandring
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ, the horse 'Gay Fleet'. Only nobody knows 'Gay Fleet' is any good yet. Rick has been intentionally losing so that he can buy the horse with a low-ball offer to the owner Carol. However Mercedes Bellway, a rival barn and in love with Rick, figures out his plan and tells Carol.
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Cry of the Hunted
Title: Cry of the Hunted
Character: Warden Keeley
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
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The Girl Who Had Everything
Title: The Girl Who Had Everything
Character: John Ashmond
Released: March 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.
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Confidentially Connie
Title: Confidentially Connie
Character: Dr. Willis Shoop
Released: March 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
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Above and Beyond
Title: Above and Beyond
Character: Gen. Samuel E. Roberts
Released: January 2, 1953
Type: Movie
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Title: The Bad and the Beautiful
Character: McDill (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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Sky Full of Moon
Title: Sky Full of Moon
Character: Customer
Released: December 12, 1952
Type: Movie
A cowboy seeks fame and fortune in Las Vegas where he meets a girl working in a casino.
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Desperate Search
Title: Desperate Search
Character: Wayne Langmuir
Released: November 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.
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Everything I Have Is Yours
Title: Everything I Have Is Yours
Character: Dr. Charles
Released: October 31, 1952
Type: Movie
A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: John Drake
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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My Man and I
Title: My Man and I
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 5, 1952
Type: Movie
In California, a Mexican-American is falsely accused of killing the farmer he was working for after the racist farmer stiffed his immigrant employee with a bad check.
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Fearless Fagan
Title: Fearless Fagan
Character: Owen Gillman
Released: August 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A young man brings his pet lion with him when he's drafted into the army. Comedy.
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The Trailer
Title: The Trailer
Character: Foreman Spence
Released: February 21, 1925
Type: Movie
Stuntman and award winning athlete Frank Merrill (Tarzan The Tiger) fights the bad guys in the old west. A fun short from 1925.